On July 23, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team's two consecutive wins turned into two consecutive defeats, and Zhang Ziyu lost the championship with 44 points to see the truth, she should have entered the women's national basketball team.
Losing the last two warm-up games before the Olympics at the same time is a very big impact on the Chinese women's basketball team, originally thinking that the whole team will find confidence in the Belgium and France teams, at least they can't lose too much, but they lost a full 39 points after these two games.
As soon as these two big defeats came out, we could already find out how important Zhang Ziyu's performance in the 44-point final was to the current Chinese women's basketball team, because this is what the women's basketball team lacks the most. Playing France and playing Belgium, in fact, the Chinese women's basketball team did not rout as soon as it came up, and even the third quarter can be stalemate with the opposite side, especially playing France, there is definitely a chance, until the 4th quarter because of lack of physical strength, coupled with the inability to cause too much consumption to the opponent, the opposite side is full of physical energy, you did not create damage, so a thousand miles of collapse.
Look at the bench at this time, if there is Zhang Ziyu, she is definitely the best choice. The simplest example is that in the U18 Women's Basketball Asian Cup final, the Chinese team lost the game, but Zhang Ziyu scored 44 points in the final. Many people are criticizing Zhang Ziyu for losing, saying that she can't play this kind of high-intensity game, and the intensity in Australia will not work, but no one noticed that Zhang Ziyu, who was 17 years old at the time, beat the inside players of the Australia team to three fouls in the half.
All played three fouls in the half, resulting in the opposite side of the second half of the intensity of the can't be on the end, and then sure enough, Zhang Ziyu's hit rate began to rise, as soon as she came up, her efficiency was relatively low, and then she was full of fouls face-to-face, for fear that she would not dare to make a move under the penalty of five fouls, Zhang Ziyu played better and better, and there were more fouls on the opposite side, and her teammates played more easily, this was the role of Zhang Ziyu in the final at that time.
Now with Zhang Ziyu, even if she can't score points on the court, she can also create damage to the opposite side, France Belgium these interior centers are all in their early 1.9 meters and not more than 2 meters, the highest center in the France is 1.98 meters, the Belgium is 1.94 meters, and then it is about 1.9 meters. Zhang Ziyu is 2.28 meters, and her height is directly 30 cm taller than the opposite side, as long as she is prevented from being on the opposite side, she will definitely commit fouls, even if more fouls are made, when Han Xu and Li Yueru come up, will it be easier to play? Even if Zhang Ziyu really can't score a point, making a few fouls will make it easier for his teammates.
Even worse, Zheng Wei didn't let Zhang Ziyu go up, and you let her sit on the sidelines, which was also a smoke bomb. She is sitting here, should the France team think about how to tactically fight her? France doesn't know when she will play, a 2.28-meter inner giant tower sits here, who is not afraid to watch?
If this is the case, there will be fewer tactics against the rest of our women's basketball team, and they will have a greater chance to play, Zheng Haixia also played international games at the age of 17, and Zhang Ziyu's talent is not worse than her, why don't you have the ability to play international competitions at the age of 17? The conditions are much better now than they were then. So from the current loss, it can be seen that Zhang Ziyu should be on, in the final of the 44-point loss game, her role is very large, and now her teammates have become stronger, let her play, we may have won two consecutive warm-up games.